'Mean' in the Bible
They seized upon that statement, discussing with one another what rising from the dead meant.
And they all continued in amazement and great perplexity, saying to one another, “What does this mean?”
You do not mean to kill me as you killed the Egyptian yesterday, do you?’
For you are bringing some strange things to our ears; so we want to know what these things mean.”
Now I mean this, that each one of you is saying, “I am of Paul,” and “I of Apollos,” and “I of Cephas,” and “I of Christ.”
I did not at all mean with the immoral people of this world, or with the covetous and swindlers, or with idolaters, for then you would have to go out of the world.
What do I mean then? That a thing sacrificed to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything?
I mean not your own conscience, but the other man’s; for why is my freedom judged by another’s conscience?
(Now this expression, “He ascended,” what does it mean except that He also had descended into the lower parts of the earth?
But if I am to live on in the flesh, this will mean fruitful labor for me; and I do not know which to choose.